:TRAFFICKING:

More children, women, and men are held into slavery right now than over the course of the entire trans-Atlantic slave trade. This is the third fastest growing illegal activity in the world, a 12 BILLION dollar industry. Even worse is in many countries pedophiles figure they can employ children with impunity. Each year 2 million new children are sold or bought into the industry of bondage. Why is it that our culture has come to be like this? Does it not disgust you that this is all for sex? Sex is the underlying cause of the motivation to sell other humans. I cannot even begin to fathom having a mother sell her daughter into a brothel. Many of us think that this issue of slavery is only in third-world countries (Mexico, Africa, Indonesia, etc.) but really the truth of the matter is that it's in our own community. In Orange County alone there have been a few cases of children being sold in Irvine and Lake Forest. This epidemic is sweeping into our own nation, but what is the cause of this disgusting business? Many of these countries that suffer from human trafficking allow prostitution, could this be the motivation of selling children? Pedophiles figure that if prostitution is legal why can't a child be prostituted? There is no thought of a boundary. If prostitution is the reason of child slave trafficking should we fear that Nevada allows some prostitution in some of its counties? Currently, there are sixteen counties with active brothels. Why does our government not interfere with this situation? Could we see an increase of child slave labor as more states legalize prostitution? Many think this is a hopeless situation in which cannot affect us, but really it is beginning to come into our own backyard.